The international Number One bestseller. Over a million copies sold in the English language. Published in 23 foreign languages. `A heartfelt memoir . . . there is a fearlessness to his prose, a willingness toengage with his past, that chimes with his songwriter's desire to give voice to the people around him' Sunday Times "Writing about yourselfis a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has madeone promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've triedto do this." -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In2009, Bruce Springsteenand the E Street Bandperformed at the SuperBowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Brucedecided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privatelydevoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to thesepages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. Hedescribes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid thepoetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading upto the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley'sdebut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentlessdrive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king inAsbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal strugglesthat inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run"reveals more than we previously realized.Born to Run will berevelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star's memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners,artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in theholy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs ("Thunder Road,""Badlands," "Darkness on the Edge of Town," "The River," "Born in theU.S.A.," "The Rising," and "The Ghost of Tom Joad," to name just afew), Bruce Springsteen's autobiography is written with the lyricismof a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thoughtdeeply about his experiences.
